‘Robo-taxi takeover’ hits speed bumps
09/08/23 — Scientific American: Berkeley transportation engineer Steven Shladover says a lack of safety data available to the public is one reason the reality of self-driving cars doesn’t yet match the hype
AI & robotics
Can we talk to whales?
09/06/23 The New Yorker — The New Yorker: Berkeley engineer Shafi Goldwasser explores how artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species
Novel brain implant helps paralyzed woman speak using a digital avatar
08/23/23 — Berkeley engineers explain how advances in AI could help restore natural communication
Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development
07/25/23 — Plug-and-play framework makes it easier to collaborate and develop interactive 3D scenes
Stuart Russell: Generative AI tools are quickly ‘running out of text’ to train themselves on
07/14/23 Insider — Business Insider: UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences concerned that AI's strategy behind training large language models is "starting to hit a brick wall"
‘Nowcasting’ model enables forecasting of extreme precipitation
07/12/23 — AI tool for analyzing short-term weather conditions may help save lives
As Big Tech invests in virtual reality, studies highlight user privacy risks
06/13/23 — CDSS: Berkeley engineers find that AR and VR users can be identified using just minutes of their head and hand movements
Robotic pup tested in East Bay could be the future of infrastructure inspection
06/12/23 — ABC7 News: Berkeley civil engineers send in Spot to inspect 100-year-old, 7,000-foot-long tunnel
Ken Goldberg: Let’s embrace the creative possibilities of AI
06/09/23 — Berkeley Blog: Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research shares his view that engaging with AI’s unique form of creativity could lead to unexpected new discoveries
CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world
06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions
Working like a dog
05/17/23 — Two research teams have developed cutting-edge approaches that shorten training times for quadruped robots.
UC Berkeley joins NSF-backed AI institute for cybersecurity
05/08/23 — Five faculty members to develop 'foundational technologies in learning and reasoning'
Stuart Russell receives ACM’s AAAI Allen Newell Award
05/04/23 — EECS professor is recognized for fundamental achievements in AI
A path to resourceful autonomous agents
05/01/23 — In latest AI lecture, EECS professor Sergey Levine discusses how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to learn to make more optimal decisions from data
ChatGPT architect, Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI
04/20/23 — Schulman talks about why he chose Berkeley for graduate school, the allure of towel-folding robots, and what he sees for the future of artificial general intelligence
When will cars be fully self-driving?
04/18/23 The Wall Street Journal — Wall Street Journal: UC Berkeley EECS professor Alexandre Bayen and other experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles
New Neurotech Collider Lab to harness interdisciplinary synergy for breakthrough innovations
04/17/23 BBH — BBH: The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub and Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology are partnering to create a new interdisciplinary space for world-changing breakthroughs in neurotech
Deep RL at scale: Fleet of robots sorts waste in office buildings
04/13/23 — Researchers show how deep reinforcement learning enables robots to improve continually in the real world, while doing an actual job
Amid boom in AI accelerators, House Fund swings open its doors
04/10/23 — Berkeley-centric outfit says OpenAI, Microsoft and Databricks are offering participating startups free and early access to tech
Stuart Russell calls for new approach for AI, a ‘civilization-ending’ technology
04/07/23 CDSS — CDSS: UC Berkeley computer science professor and leading AI expert is urging companies to rethink how they’re building AI and calling on countries to regulate it to ensure it furthers human interests